U.S. prosecutors are investigating several high-ranking
Venezuelan officials, including the president of the country’s congress, on
suspicion that they have turned the country into a global hub for cocaine
trafficking and money laundering, according to more than a dozen people
familiar with the probes. An elite unit of the Drug Enforcement Administration
in Washington and federal prosecutors in New York and Miami are building cases
using evidence provided by former cocaine traffickers, informants who were once
close to top Venezuelan officials and defectors from the Venezuelan military,
these people say.
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